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Your emigration, step by step
Leave the Netherlands properly. Start well in your new country.
A personal step-by-step plan for your emigration: everything you need to arrange, in the right order and at the right moment. For your country, on both sides of the border.
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- step-by-step plans, per country
- 64
- step-by-step plans, per country
- steps, in the right order
- 2,382
- steps, in the right order
- official sources, with check date
- 6,032
- official sources, with check date
- last updated
- 20 October
- last updated
I check every step against the official source myself, and each step shows when. Something no longer correct? One click on the step reports it, and I update it for everyone. See what a step looks like →
The country is chosen. Then this is on the table.
‘Emigration’. Twenty-three PDFs, and no idea which ones are still right.
Folder on the desktop
Read three times. What happens when you leave isn't in it.
Letter from the pension fund
Municipality, tax office, health insurer. Each knows its own piece, nobody knows the order.
Three offices
‘Shouldn't we have applied for that ages ago?’
Kitchen table · 11:40 pm
Vertrekklaar puts it in order: per country, every step with the official source.
Between working it out yourself and nine thousand euros there should be something
Anyone emigrating now usually chooses between two things. Both cost you something you'd rather have kept.
Work it out yourself
Free
but it costs you months
What that means
- You read official sites that contradict each other, and can't tell which one is right
- On forums you find answers from years ago, without knowing whether they still hold
- Whether you had the order right, you only find out when something goes wrong
- Meanwhile one document expires while you're waiting for the next
Vertrekklaar
€ 199 – € 499
pay once per destination, no subscription
- Every step is written out: where you need to go, when, and where that is officially stated
- You file the applications yourself. The plan keeps track of what's still to do, and when
- Twice a month we check the sources. If something changes, you'll see it in your plan
An emigration agency
Over € 9,000
for our visa route to Australia, and afterwards you still don't know how it works
What that means
- That is what an agency asked us, on top of the cost of the move
- Whether an agency is any good is hard to tell in advance
- Most of the money goes on organising: the right things in the right order
I ran into it myself
We had serious plans to emigrate to Australia. What we found online was mostly contradictory: one says you start at A, another at B, and underneath always the question whether we were overlooking something. A specialised agency wanted to take it over from us, for well over nine thousand euros.
Six months later we chose a trip around the world with our family. We leave on 2 January. What I put on this site, I'm arranging for my own family too.
From deciding to arrived: how your departure runs
Every plan follows the same line. What has to happen at each station differs per country and per situation. Working that out is exactly what the plan does for you.
The dashboard as you see it after purchase, here with the plan for Spain.
- 1
Orientation
Your target date is the first decision. The plan checks whether the time you have is enough.
- 2
Closing down the Netherlands
You can only deregister from five days before you leave. Cancelling often has to happen months earlier.
- 3
The move
Household goods, car and pet each have their own papers and their own deadline.
- 4
Registering in your new country
In many countries one registration opens the rest: bank, healthcare, school. So the plan puts it first.
- 5
Arrival
Some clocks only start once you're there: your driving licence, your tax return, your healthcare.
This is in every step-by-step plan
- The plan
- A step-by-step plan for your situation · Sources and counters under every step · The cost calculator on your choices
- The watching
- All running deadlines in one place · A document vault that watches dates · An alert when it's needed · And after arrival: the upkeep calendar
- The person
- A person reading along · Your partner watches and ticks along · All your cancellation letters in one go
64 destinations, each worked out down to the counter
A visa journey to Australia is a different puzzle from Spanish bureaucracy. Every plan is therefore built separately and checked separately.
All destinations
Europe25
- AustriaNo visa required
- BelgiumNo visa required
- BulgariaNo visa required
- CroatiaNo visa required
- CyprusNo visa required
- CzechiaNo visa required
- DenmarkNo visa required
- EnglandVisa required
- EstoniaNo visa required
- FinlandNo visa required
- FranceNo visa required
- GermanyNo visa required
- GreeceNo visa required
- HungaryNo visa required
- IrelandNo visa required
- ItalyNo visa required
- LuxembourgNo visa required
- MaltaNo visa required
- NorwayNo visa required
- PolandNo visa required
- PortugalNo visa required
- RomaniaNo visa required
- SpainNo visa required
- SwedenNo visa required
- SwitzerlandNo visa required
Caribbean7
North and Central America6
South America11
Asia and Middle East9
Is your country missing?
Put your country on my list. I build the country with the most sign-ups first, and when yours opens, you'll be the first to hear.
Every step on one list, free
Not ready to start yet? Choose your destination and you get the departure checklist: every step in order, to print and tick off. With five mails about the pitfalls and the real costs. After that, an occasional email, including one offer. You can switch it off at any time.
What people ask us
What does it cost?
- € 199
- No visa needed (EU and EEA, such as Spain, Portugal and Germany)
- € 299
- No visa, but a settlement journey (Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Switzerland)
- € 399
- Visa or permit needed (such as England, the United States and Thailand)
- € 499
- Points system, skills assessment and language test (Australia, Canada, New Zealand)
Pay once, per destination, no subscription. The price for your country is on the country page. Pay with iDEAL or card.
Is this migration advice?
No, and that's a deliberate choice. In countries such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand only a registered adviser may give migration advice, and rightly so: it's about your future. Vertrekklaar organises and informs. It tells you which steps there are, in which order they belong and when they're due. It doesn't judge whether your application stands a chance. If you run into such a question, the tool says so honestly and refers you on.
Can't I find all of this for free?
Yes. Everything in the plan comes from official sources, and they are listed at every step. Our knowledge base and the cost calculator are free too. What you buy is the work around it: which steps apply to your situation, in which order, with which deadline, and an alert when something has to happen. If you have the time to do that yourself, you can do without us.
Why not just ChatGPT?
Go ahead and ask it, and put the answer next to a step from our plan. The difference: with us, every line carries the official source and the date we last checked it, twice a month. A language model doesn't know that the Greek 7% scheme got a different application date in 2026, and doesn't say so when it doesn't know. And if you get stuck, a person answers here.
Does this apply to my situation too?
The plan first asks who is coming, what is coming along and how you're leaving the Netherlands. Steps that don't apply to you don't appear; steps that only apply to you do. Is your situation slightly different from what's written? Ask your question at the step; you'll get an answer within two working days.
Why should I believe you?
You don't have to take our word for it. Every line carries the official source and the date it was last checked, so you can verify everything. You can look at the example plan without an account, and the cost calculator and the knowledge base are free: you see how we work before you pay anything. Who is behind it, and why, is on the About page.
5 more questions
What if the rules change after I buy?
Then your plan changes with them. We check the sources and update the steps; every line shows its check date. Your access lasts for your whole journey, so you always work with the current version.
Which countries does it work for?
For 64 destinations in Europe, the Caribbean, North and Central America, Asia, Africa and Oceania. The full list is above and in the menu. Every plan is fully worked out, and every step has been checked against the source. A country is only added once its plan is complete. Is your country missing? Put it on the list, right below the destinations. I build the country with the most sign-ups first.
How quickly can I start?
Right away. You choose your country, pay and fill in who's coming and what's coming along. That gives you your plan. Your account is created automatically with the payment. Within a quarter of an hour you know what your first step is.
Can my partner watch along?
Yes, with a login of their own. You invite your partner from the settings. They then get their own login to the same journey, with the same steps and the same documents. You each tick your own box and see at every step whether the other has done it; the step is done once you both have. In the open phase 1 that works too, with a shared link and no account. The plan already took your whole household into account, from the visa route to the costs.
What happens to my documents?
They're stored encrypted on a server within the EU, shielded so that only you and your invited partner can access them. The contents of your documents don't go to an AI. The tool only keeps track of whether something is present. And you can permanently delete your account with everything in it yourself at any time.
Ready to begin?
64 journeys are fully ready: your step-by-step plan, your documents and your costs in one place, and the plan keeps an eye on your deadlines. You pay once, and then it's yours.